As I wrote before, without the API from Ancestry (which they will not release), you can't do a direct share between Ancestry and Legacy.
Highlight and copy would be the only way, unless you want to type it in. Sherry On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Jerry Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > The word, "copy" may not have been the best choice. What I want to > accomplish is to have all of the sources, Discussions and Notes in > FamilySearch also in Legacy and Ancestry without having to spend a great > deal of time keying everything in again. Another concern I have is updating > my Ancestry file. There may be a better way, but all I know to do is import > my FamilySearch tree into Legacy, create a new gedcom file and upload it to > Ancestry. Then I am faced with keying in all those sources, Discussions and > Notes again. Unless there is a better way to do this, I am required to key > everything in again even if all I am doing is editing information on one > individual. I am finding so much ludicrous information in FamilySearch > (people born before their parents, etc.) that I spend half my time > correcting errors. Is there a way to update a few individuals in Ancestry > without keying everything in again? > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > > On 12/26/2016 1:23 PM, Anne Lo Forte Willson wrote: > > do you really want to copy the sources back and forth? Legacy, Ancestry and > FamilySearch all have different ways of writing their sources. If you copy > them from one to the other, the formatting won't match. I'd rather have a > way to match up the sources from one to another, that is, in > LegacyFamilySearch mode I could mark sources that show in FamilySearch > Family Tree as the same as a particular source in Legacy So I am able to > confirm that I have all the sources in both places, but not necessarily > copied from one to the other. > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Sherry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Any transfer of data between Ancestry and Legacy must be keyed in. >> There is no way to do a direct transfer either way. >> >> That's all up to Ancestry - they need to release an API to Legacy in >> order for the programmers to make the connection. >> >> Sherry >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Jerry Murphy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > The last I heard, Legacy was still not allowed to include an option to >> > easily copy FamilySearch sources to Ancestry.com. Assuming that is >> > still >> > true, is there a way to get sources transferred other than re-keying >> > them >> > all into Legacy or directly into Ancestry? Thanks. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
